‎02-05-200908:23 AM - last edited on ‎03-31-201407:25 PM by Lisa198503

‎02-05-200908:23 AM - last edited on ‎03-31-201407:25 PM by Lisa198503

Upgrade hard disk on DL320 g5 from raid 72gb to 250gb

Our server has already installed two 72GB Sata harddisk.Our planning is to upgrade to two 250GB harddisk.

I have done this procedure:

i had unplug one of thr 72gb HD, after i plug in one of 250gb HD and i rebuild the array with a 72 gb and a 250gb HDafter that i have plug in the second 250 gb HD and i rebuild the array with two 250gb HD, but now i have one array of 72 gb and i can't allocate the other free space in the arry controller menu and on windows i see only 72gb disk.

on another dl 360 when i plug in the second 250gb HD the raid controller say to me " would you like to allocate the free space?" and after that i had one array of 250GB and on windows i had the possibility to allocate the free space in a new partition

Does any know how to do so to upgrade to 250GB arry? or additional with a seperate 220GB partition?

or the only possibility is to do a ghost of 72gb disk and restore on 250gb disk?:(

Many thanks!!

P.S. This thread has been moved from Disk to ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL). -HP Forum Moderator

Re: Upgrade hard disk on DL320 g5 from raid 72gb to 250gb

The DL320 G5 comes by default with a 2 Port SATA Controller, which is very simple and does not support hot-plug disks, drive LEDs, RAID level migration or logical unit expansion.You need a more advanced controller, like the optional Smart Arrays for that.